Black as Feudalism was, yet the coming of it was
inevitable. What else than Feudalism could have followed upon the breakdown of that great centralized governmental machine known as the Roman Empire?
A FLEA thus questioned an Ox: "What ails you, that being so huge and strong, you submit to the wrongs you receive from men and slave for them day by day, while I, being so small a creature, mercilessly feed on their flesh and drink their blood without stint?' The Ox replied: "I do not wish to be ungrateful, for I am loved and well cared for by men, and they often pat my head and shoulders." "Woe's me!" said the flea; "this very patting which you like, whenever it happens to me, brings with it my
inevitable destruction."
They had tried not to go over the precipice but perhaps the fall was
inevitable. And it comforted her to think that the future was certainly
inevitable: cause and effect would go jangling forward to some goal doubtless, but to none that she could imagine.
The will is plain, and the result is
inevitable. Your husband's fortune is lost to you from this moment.
I have been conscious all the way along through this pilgrimage of its
inevitable vagueness of direction, of my need of something definite, some place, some name, anything at all, however slight, which I might associate, if only for a time, with the object of my quest, a definite something to seek, a definite goal for my feet.
Our author tells us in this book, as he has told us in others, more especially in The World Set Free, and as he has been telling us this year in his War and the Future, that if mankind goes on with war, the smash-up of civilization is
inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World for mankind.
But the Law is still, in certain
inevitable cases, the pre-engaged servant of the long purse; and the story is left to be told, for the first time, in this place.
A chapter of my life was closed, and I felt a little nearer to
inevitable death.
Such is the
inevitable fate of men of action, and the higher they stand in the social hierarchy the less are they free.
He rails at the order of things, but he imagines nothing different, even when he shows that its baseness, and cruelty, and hypocrisy are well-nigh
inevitable, and, for most of those who wish to get on in it, quite
inevitable.
"You understand what is meant by the
inevitable," he continued.
Death, the
inevitable end of all, for the first time presented itself to him with irresistible force.